Smallville alum Allison Mack is speaking publicly for the first time since her 2023 release from prison.
The 43-year-old actress appeared on the podcast Allison After NXIVM, produced by CBC’s Uncover, which premiered Monday, Nov. 10. In the episode, Mack looked back on the day she was sentenced in New York City in 2021.
“Oh, my God, my poor brother behind me, having to hear this about his sister,” she recalled emotionally. “My poor mom. I’m so sorry, you guys. I can take it, but like — you guys, I’m so sorry. I don’t see myself as innocent, and they were.”
During the interview, Mack remembered the judge describing her as “callous” for having “laughed at people’s pain and led people in negative directions.”
When asked whether she had leveraged her fame during her involvement with NXIVM and her trial, Mack replied, “I think that I capitalized on the things I had — and so the success I had as an actor, I think I did capitalize on that.”
She admitted that she believed she was “very effective in moving Keith’s vision forward” when asked if she viewed herself as an accomplice.
Authorities arrested Mack on April 20, 2018, accusing her of recruiting women as “s*x slaves” for NXIVM co-founder Keith Raniere. The organization’s subgroup, DOS, was described as an all-female secret society where women were allegedly coerced into being s*xually subservient to Raniere, 65.
Mack pleaded guilty to racketeering and conspiracy charges and was sentenced to three years in prison for her leadership role within NXIVM, the now-defunct group once led by Raniere.
Raniere himself was convicted in 2019 of operating what prosecutors called a “s*xual pyramid scheme.” He is serving a 120-year prison sentence for s*x trafficking, racketeering, fraud, and related crimes.
Mack served her sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, and was released in 2023 under the First Step Act (FSA) — a law enacted during Donald Trump’s administration that allows federal inmates to earn up to 54 days of “good-conduct” credit per year of their sentence.
In 2020, Mack filed for divorce from her wife, actress Nicki Clyne, in Orange County, California, according to TMZ. The two had been married since 2017, a union reportedly arranged at the direction of Raniere, NXIVM’s co-founder.
More recently, Mack married a man named Frank in Los Angeles, TMZ reported. The couple allegedly met at a dog park shortly after her release and became engaged around Christmas 2024.
